I was never a big QSL collector, but I held on to this one I received from Radio Sine Wave for the Sept. 30, 1984 broadcast. (At least I think that's a "9" for September. Others in this thread reference a July 30 bdcst.)
Several notable things about this QSL:
1. Dr Calculator was decades ahead of his time by using 8.5 inch x 11.0 inch printouts rather than postcards. It's just that HE printed them out instead of his listeners.
2. It's two-sided. The other side was funny as hell.
3. He made two comments that made me chuckle some 37 years later:
- The note about my radio blowing up when somebody rings my doorbell was presumably in response to describing my antenna as a "random length of doorbell wire". I don't have a copy of my original reception report, but at the time I was renting the second floor of a duplex and running stealth, and that was my antenna.
- On the reverse side he gave me "0" rating for "Plausibility", presumably for my antenna description among other things. My HFU signature composed just a few weeks ago describes one of my antennas as "implausibe". I guess some things never change, even after almost four decades.
4. Given the, um, UNIQUE presentation and format of the QSL, I've been wondering whatever became to Dr. Calculator. I presume that he did not grow up to become a ruthless PITA VP of Engineering at some start-up, nor a Senior Agile Evangelist for a giant social media company. At least I hope not.
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QSL back:
Topic: Pirate Log from the 1980's (Read 46228 times)
